Iowa Straw Poll Goes Down in Flames
The state’s Republican Party voted today to kill the presidential campaign tradition.
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The carnival-like, barbecue-filled, quasi-vote-buying days of the Iowa Straw Poll are ending after that state's Republican Party voted to kill the presidential campaign tradition.
Since 1979, the event had been held the summer prior to contested Iowa Republican caucuses. It sometimes helped winnow the field of candidates before the first-in-the-nation nomination balloting.